A 57-year-old man pleaded not guilty May 28 in downtown Los Angeles to federal charges of stealing expensive violins and robbing a bank in Irvine.
Mark Meng of Irvine faces wire fraud and bank robbery counts in an alleged scheme to steal high-end violins and resell them for his personal gain from August 2020 through April of last year, and for the bank robbery, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
